Global Patent Index - EP 0618552 B1

EP 0618552 B1 20011212 - Fraud protection for card transactions

Title (en)

Fraud protection for card transactions

Title (de)

Betrugsschutz für Kartentransaktionen

Title (fr)

Protection contre le fraude pour transactions par cartes à puce

Publication

EP 0618552 B1 20011212 (EN)

Application

EP 94301904 A 19940316

Priority

US 3778793 A 19930326

Abstract (en)

[origin: US5311594A] The problems of fraud in card transactions can be reduced by, after requiring the person engaged in the card transaction to initially identify himself, such as by supplying a card number, a) requesting, the person to supply as authentication information either 1) a randomly selected piece of prestored information or 2) information derived from a randomly selected piece of prestored information; and b) completing the transaction only if the authentication information requested is correctly supplied. The authentication information requested is described in terms of its nature, i.e., what it represents, so that one can not deduce from the request the correct response without knowing the selected prestored piece of information. Since the authentication information is randomly determined for each card transaction, a thief will rarely, if ever, be able to successfully complete a card transaction simply by supplying, in response to a request, the same piece of authentication information last supplied by the authorized person. Each authorized person already knows the particular pieces of information that are prestored for him, e.g., birthdate of spouse, year of school graduation, and mother's telephone number. Thus, he need exert no extra effort to remember them. If the pieces of prestored authentication information are various numbers they may be transmitted over a telephone network from a caller to the authorization system using currently available dial pads and DTMF signaling.

IPC 1-7

G07F 7/10

IPC 8 full level

G06Q 20/00 (2006.01); G06Q 20/04 (2012.01); G06Q 20/34 (2012.01); G06Q 20/40 (2012.01); G07F 7/10 (2006.01); H04M 3/42 (2006.01); H04M 3/60 (2006.01); G07C 9/00 (2006.01)

CPC (source: EP US)

G06Q 20/04 (2013.01 - EP US); G06Q 20/341 (2013.01 - EP US); G06Q 20/40 (2013.01 - EP US); G06Q 20/4012 (2013.01 - EP US); G06Q 20/4014 (2013.01 - EP US); G06Q 20/40145 (2013.01 - EP US); G07F 7/10 (2013.01 - EP US); G07F 7/1008 (2013.01 - EP US); G07C 9/21 (2020.01 - EP US); Y10S 379/903 (2013.01 - EP US)

Designated contracting state (EPC)

DE FR GB IT

DOCDB simple family (publication)

US 5311594 A 19940510; CA 2114562 A1 19940927; CA 2114562 C 19970429; DE 69429379 D1 20020124; DE 69429379 T2 20020822; EP 0618552 A1 19941005; EP 0618552 B1 20011212; JP 3980077 B2 20070919; JP H0746323 A 19950214

DOCDB simple family (application)

US 3778793 A 19930326; CA 2114562 A 19940131; DE 69429379 T 19940316; EP 94301904 A 19940316; JP 7786294 A 19940325